This is the north face of Rakaposhi (7778m). If you come to Hunza you will get to know it well as the view dominates town. If you stay for a while you’ll get a chance at the classic route from Hunza.

This is the group of friends flying in Pakistan now, Left to Right Brad Sander, Matt Senior, Sam Moffet, Oriol Fernandez, Patrick Troubet, Fernando Rodrigo.

On May 17th Matt, Oriol Patrick and I flew a 100km triangle together which seems the obvious classic route from Hunza. Base was low at 5700m but the climbs were plentifull and easy to find. Comunicating on the radio with big gloves, staying warm, and keeping track of each other in the midst of some very large terrain proved the biggest challenges.   Here’s Matt during the flight.

And this is me gliding back along the North face of Rakaposhi. Thanks for the photo Oriol!

The same place, we trade positions.

Oriol coming back to Karimabad to land at the end of the day, Baltit Fort.

There’s much more, I think everyone who has come has had the most amazing flights of their lives. There is simply no where that compares to Pakistan for flying. We’ve received a warm welcome and had no troubles in the country at all. Sadly the situation has not been so good for many people in Swat where there has been fighting between the Army and Taliban in the past few weeks. Swat is not far in a straight line but it seems like a different world compared to Hunza.